A possibly mechanical optics

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https://doi.org/10.15536/reducarmais.4.2020.1935

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Huygens-Fresnel Principle, Refraction, Young’s double slit pattern, Snell’s law, Complementarity Principle.

Abstract

This paper investigates the refraction/reflection laws and the double slit interference pattern for particles. We used boundary conditions that consider the discrete and vibrant structure of the matter with which the particles interact, resulting in their scattering, enabling the use of the Huygens and Huygens-Fresnel principles for particles. We managed to obtain results that generalize Snell’s law, the reflection law and Young’s double slit pattern, for regions very close to the refraction/reflection interface and the slits. The choice made of the scattering used, seems to be the key for a mechanical explanation of light and Young’s double slit pattern, including the case of the particles passing through the slit one at a time, therefore, it challenges the validity of the Niels Bohr’s complementarity principle and might be the missing link that reconnects without hierarchies both Classical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics.

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Author Biography

Paulo Cesar Facin, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa/Departamento de Física

Possui graduação em Física pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (1987), mestrado em Física pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba (1991) e doutorado em Engenharia Mecânica pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2003). Atualmente é professor da Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa. Tem experiência na área de Física, com ênfase em Propriedades de Transportes de Matéria Condensada (Não Eletrônica), atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: modelo de Boltzmann para escoamento de fluidos, permeabilidade intrínseca, energias alternativas, sustentabilidade e numeric simulation.

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DAVISSON, C., GERMER, L. H. Diffraction of electrons by a crystal of nickel. Physical Review, vol 30 n. 06, 705 – 741 p, December 1927.

HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN. Treatise on Light: N. York (Leyden): Dover, 1690.

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2020-09-08 — Updated on 2021-02-20

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Facin, P. C. (2021). A possibly mechanical optics. Educar Mais, 4(3), 460–480. https://doi.org/10.15536/reducarmais.4.2020.1935 (Original work published September 8, 2020)

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